Saturday, September 11, 2010

A few weeks ago, Alli and I finally took a trip to visit the Jurong bird park. We'd attended the Night Safari with Tim and Kristen while they visited, but gone ahead and purchased a multi-park pass including this. It is a very well laid out park with many very colorful exotic birds that you can often get quite close to, as you'll see...

There was a show complete with birds swooping into the crowd, and one showing he could count to ten in English and Chinese and sing various songs in both languages. Alli even got to be part of the show:

I decided to see if this bird would mind, should I take a nibble from his papaya. He seemed confused by the whole thing.

The exhibit on lorries especially allowed for up close encounters, as you could feed the birds:

Sometimes they are messy eaters and will fight over the food and splash it all over Alli:

Other times they will mistake the shiny surface of your sunglasses as a source of further food, and perch atop your head:

That makes me think- somewhere along seeing all of these birds, a statement was made, maybe just on a sign, that despite the exotic colors of these birds, since they come from rain forests equally colorful, this makes for good camouflage.And I have to say I really doubt it. I've seen rain forests- they are primarily green. yes there are colorful plants, but can you imagine that last bird blending into anything? I'm pretty sure that design is so that the bird stands out from its background, presumably having the most to do with attracting a mate.

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Kyle and Alli live and work out of their house now that they are the proud owners of a home [loan]! They have two awesome babies (code names: Hamish and Fauntleroy). They are still on a big adventure, but this one earns fewer frequent flier miles. They are still--thank the Lord!--each other's favorite.